R. Scott Bakker and Evan Thompson recently debated the merits of neurophenomenology here: http://philosophyofbrains.com/2015/07/29/is-consciousness-a-stream.aspx. Check out Adam/Knowledge-Ecology's post, where another comment exchange is taking shape...
Tag: cognitive science
ERIE Talk: The Extended Mind Thesis and the Ecologization of Consciousness
A talk I gave for ERIE at CIIS a few months ago building on (an admittedly loose interpretation of) Andy Clark's extended mind thesis and Richard Doyle's ideas about the role of psychedelics in human evolution:
Evan Thompson @ CIIS on Neuroscience, Meditation, and Self-Enaction
Andrew Pickering on Cybernetics
Philosopher Andrew Pickering on Cybernetics.
Feelings Matter because Motion Emotes.
ConferenceReport (or Fred in the meat-world) likes to take his visuoaudiences on a walk through metaphors of mind. In this video, he draws on the work of the cognitive scientists George Lakoff, Thomas Nagel, Antonio Damasio, Thomas Metzinger, and William James, among others. I'm most interested in what Fred has to say about the relationship between consciousness and [...]
Naturalizing Representation
I wrote this essay a few years ago for a philosophy of mental representation course. I think I would rework a few ideas looking back, but I would still defend the idea that reality is not describable from 1st or 3rd person perspectives alone. Both are part of a larger ongoing whole/part. Q: Why is [...]
Hofstadter, Wittgenstein, Varela: Loops, Language, Poesis
The purpose of this essay is to display how the Enlightenment's arête became its harmartia. In other words, it is to show how Modernity's greatest virtue became its tragic flaw. Its virtue was to separate the Big Three: the Good, the True, and the Beautiful. This differentiation lead to all the positive aspects of Modern [...]
Spellbound: Magic Words and Minds Without Self
IntroductionThere was a time when physics, still high on the spirit of the Enlightenment, took seriously the idea that its measurements of the fundamental stuff composing the universe could explain just about everything worth knowing about. Granted, it didn't have all the necessary measurements compiled just yet, but it assured everyone that it was just [...]
